The EMERGENCY Thread!!!

[Wyorp Rock]

Help please. I don't know if this really bad or if my chicken is fine. She is 8 weeks old and she is a Sicilian Buttercup. She's acting normal and is eating and drinking but I just noticed that her poop is bloody. I'm kind of freaked out and don't know what to do or how to help her if something is wrong. Please give me advice!

Hi @ChickenDog0421

Bloody poop would be an indication of Coccidiosis. I would start treatment with Corid as soon as possible. Provide it for all the chicks.

Corid dosage is 1 1/2 teaspoons Corid powder per gallon or 2 teaspoons of 9.6% Corid liquid per gallon.
Give for 5-7 days - make sure this is the ONLY water available during that time period. Mix a fresh batch at least once a day.

After they finish treatment offer some poultry vitamins and probiotics/plain yogurt.

 

[ChickenDog0421]

Hi @ChickenDog0421


Bloody poop would be an indication of Coccidiosis.  I would start treatment with Corid as soon as possible.  Provide it for all the chicks.

Corid dosage  is 1 1/2 teaspoons Corid powder per gallon or 2 teaspoons of 9.6% Corid liquid per gallon.
Give for 5-7 days - make sure this is the ONLY water available during that time period. Mix a fresh batch at least once a day.

After they finish treatment offer some poultry vitamins and probiotics/plain yogurt.

Okay thank you! I just got the treatment that goes into the water. But all of my chicks are still currently living inside with no heat, I just finished building there coop and I was wondering if I could move them out to there new coop without my older chickens getting sick too. Or should I keep my young chicks inside until they're finished being treated? They will be in separate coops and runs but I don't want my older chickens to get sick to.

 

[Yemimah]

Help please. I don't know if this really bad or if my chicken is fine. She is 8 weeks old and she is a Sicilian Buttercup. She's acting normal and is eating and drinking but I just noticed that her poop is bloody. I'm kind of freaked out and don't know what to do or how to help her if something is wrong. Please give me advice!

I had a similar situation where a eight-week-old was actually as I held in my hand with this Blood you're speaking up. And with my knowledge of medicine all I knew to do to stop the bird from bleeding was Cayenne. Immediately it stopped the bleeding. I inquired further into another website I'm part of called chickens and farming. Melanie chessman- Alexander moderates that site and confirmed that yes you can give chicks cayenne pepper and they have no heat receptorsShe also suggested to team that up with chopped fine garlic and cayenne and put it in their food with warm water to make it like cookie dough. My birds are coccidiosis free using this treatment. Only make enough fresh Feed everyday that is the amount they will consume within 8 hours . You will never have coccidiosis in your birds again if you feed them Cayenne once a week. For chicks you can keep it in the food full-time and no it won't hurt them. Also add some dried oregano to their water with a little apple cider vinegar. And after you've cleared up the problem I recommend getting rooster booster iron tonic for them -follow the directions

 

[Yemimah]

I had a similar situation where a eight-week-old was actually as I held in my hand with this Blood you're speaking up. And with my knowledge of medicine all I knew to do to stop the bird from bleeding was Cayenne. Immediately it stopped the bleeding. I inquired further into another website I'm part of called chickens and farming. Melanie chessman- Alexander moderates that site and confirmed that yes you can give chicks cayenne pepper and they have no heat receptorsShe also suggested to team that up with chopped fine garlic and cayenne and put it in their food with warm water to make it like cookie dough. My birds are coccidiosis free using this treatment. Only make enough fresh Feed everyday that is the amount they will consume within 8 hours . You will never have coccidiosis in your birds again if you feed them Cayenne once a week. For chicks you can keep it in the food full-time and no it won't hurt them. Also add some dried oregano to their water with a little apple cider vinegar. And after you've cleared up the problem I recommend getting rooster booster iron tonic for them -follow the directions

amounts sorry I forgot to put the amount one teaspoon dried cayenne powder per bird and one clove of garlic per bird then only enough food that they will eat within 8 hours

 

[Yemimah]

Also I would NOT mix them with your other birds till you have cleared up the problem.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Okay thank you! I just got the treatment that goes into the water. But all of my chicks are still currently living inside with no heat, I just finished building there coop and I was wondering if I could move them out to there new coop without my older chickens getting sick too. Or should I keep my young chicks inside until they're finished being treated? They will be in separate coops and runs but I don't want my older chickens to get sick to.

the older chickens *should* already have immunity to it, these guys being younger were more susceptible
that being said they should pass it to the others but it makes it easier to treat keeping them separated
and whats an extra week, lol

 

[Aziara]

I have a very strange chick right now. It's a light brahma and hatched in my incubator yesterday. The right leg and wing are in very uncomfortable positions, and the right hip is bulging. Note the leg curving inwards and up in the pictures below.


The right wing also looks weird. The joint where one bone meets two bends upwards at a 90 degree angle vertically if I hold the wing horizontally. It's difficult to get a picture of.


The chick cannot walk at all. It screams if I move the odd leg, but doesn't seem to care if I manipulate the odd wing.
Is this dislocations? Birth defects? If it is a dislocation, how do I manipulate the leg so that it pops back? Or is that impossible?
Please answer, I hatched this chick and its siblings as a favor to someone who doesn't have an incubator, and she wants me to put it down if I can't fix the leg. I really don't want to, but if it'll never walk, I'll have to.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I have a very strange chick right now. It's a light brahma and hatched in my incubator yesterday. The right leg and wing are in very uncomfortable positions, and the right hip is bulging. Note the leg curving inwards and up in the pictures below.


The right wing also looks weird. The joint where one bone meets two bends upwards at a 90 degree angle vertically if I hold the wing horizontally. It's difficult to get a picture of.


The chick cannot walk at all. It screams if I move the odd leg, but doesn't seem to care if I manipulate the odd wing.
Is this dislocations? Birth defects? If it is a dislocation, how do I manipulate the leg so that it pops back? Or is that impossible?
Please answer, I hatched this chick and its siblings as a favor to someone who doesn't have an incubator, and she wants me to put it down if I can't fix the leg. I really don't want to, but if it'll never walk, I'll have to.

it might not be fixable but you can certainly try

Treatments for Leg Problems in Chickens & other Poultry

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry

CURLY TOES Spraddle Leg TENDON Leg ISSUES post #42573 post #110393
DUCKS can have Spraddle leg too! post #15184 post #15355

 

[chickengr]

I have a very strange chick right now. It's a light brahma and hatched in my incubator yesterday. The right leg and wing are in very uncomfortable positions, and the right hip is bulging. Note the leg curving inwards and up in the pictures below.


The right wing also looks weird. The joint where one bone meets two bends upwards at a 90 degree angle vertically if I hold the wing horizontally. It's difficult to get a picture of.


The chick cannot walk at all. It screams if I move the odd leg, but doesn't seem to care if I manipulate the odd wing.
Is this dislocations? Birth defects? If it is a dislocation, how do I manipulate the leg so that it pops back? Or is that impossible?
Please answer, I hatched this chick and its siblings as a favor to someone who doesn't have an incubator, and she wants me to put it down if I can't fix the leg. I really don't want to, but if it'll never walk, I'll have to.

I don't know what problem your chick has but I had a chick with leg issue and I gave her sesame seeds from day 1. it helped. she is my avatar chick.

 

[Yemimah]

I need help. I'm always puzzled on how to start a new thread on this site. I need advice I've been trying to deal with illness with nine week old birds. The main thing that it is is that their abdomen like if you put your ear up to them which is what I do to see if they've got something going on their lungs they sound what in their abdomen off compared other healthy chickens to these chickens so there is something wrong and I've seen that in the past two I did have one bird that died and she sounded really wet period but it's not in their lungs it's like it's in their abdomen and some of them recover and totally dry up. I've tried antibiotics it does seem to do something period they've been on cayenne and garlic in their feed I've been easing off on that. It had oregano in their water. I also was given them poultry sell iron because they had a bad case of coccidiosis before this period I just want to get these birds back on their feet and wings period I just want to know what if what I'm doing is going to actually correct the situation. okay I had been doing fermented feed. but I backed off when I started having these health problems not really knowing what the source of the problem was. so what it sounds like if you put your ear up to their abdomen it would sound like what congestion with sound like in the lungs except it's not in there long as you can clearly hear their breathing is clear. The birds that sound like that look sick. Please can someone that really knows about chicken's help me with this. I cannot experiment. I have spent all kinds of money on medicine and all kinds of things trying to help these birds and it's wringing me out dry.